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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefit claimants risk falling victim to the Labour Party government “mass fishing” expedition, an MP has warned.

The Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Accountability) Bill has cleared both Houses of Parliament, and is going through a tidying up process before it can become law.

But MPs have warned the new DWP powers to prevent fraud could morph into a “mass fishing” exercise unless the Government widens the role of an independent person. Liberal Democrats work and pensions spokesman Steve Darling said: “We still have concerns that there is a blanket approach to this, and effectively, mass fishing will occur with the proposals as before us.”

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